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[scrdest]

Anyone have seeds for 1.72 to recommend? Seems like most of the top seeds list are focusing on the new biomes (Oh, look! Brown clay! Yay for fancy dirt! Oh, wow! Really tall mountains!) rather than actually playable worlds.

Am I the only one that noticed Minecraft doesn't actually update with new content, they just take things from popular mods?

No. You're not.

[BigD145]

Anyone have seeds for 1.72 to recommend? Seems like most of the top seeds list are focusing on the new biomes (Oh, look! Brown clay! Yay for fancy dirt! Oh, wow! Really tall mountains!) rather than actually playable worlds.

Am I the only one that noticed Minecraft doesn't actually update with new content, they just take things from popular mods?

No. You're not.

Usually 1 year behind the times as well. Usually missing something. Nothing new to see here.

[Ultimuh]

Anyone have seeds for 1.72 to recommend? Seems like most of the top seeds list are focusing on the new biomes (Oh, look! Brown clay! Yay for fancy dirt! Oh, wow! Really tall mountains!) rather than actually playable worlds.

Am I the only one that noticed Minecraft doesn't actually update with new content, they just take things from popular mods?

Well it's not that bad, in my opinion.
But yes, some original features would be nice.

[scrdest]

Anyone have seeds for 1.72 to recommend? Seems like most of the top seeds list are focusing on the new biomes (Oh, look! Brown clay! Yay for fancy dirt! Oh, wow! Really tall mountains!) rather than actually playable worlds.

Am I the only one that noticed Minecraft doesn't actually update with new content, they just take things from popular mods?

Well it's not that bad, in my opinion.
But yes, some original features would be nice.

On the other hand, it's pretty hard to add something that is not already featured in some mod, and most requested features have some overlap between the mods and the stuff that is prioritized for getting added.

[Max White]

While technically taken from a mod, I still think vanilla cubic chunks would be the best thing that could be implemented, combine with 3d biome selection so that we could actually have underground biomes.

[BigD145]

Mojang had rideable pigs and cows could have followed. Way later they added horses and didn't put in wings or horns or much in the way of breeding. They could have gone crazy with pigs and cows and even sheep. Imagine sheep mounts... Hilarious. Instead they gimped an old mod. Castrated it. Everything in the past 2+ years has done this. Even when they do recolors they leave things out. Stuff that's commonly paired lacks a full recolor.

[Graknorke]

Mojang had rideable pigs and cows could have followed. Way later they added horses and didn't put in wings or horns or much in the way of breeding. They could have gone crazy with pigs and cows and even sheep. Imagine sheep mounts... Hilarious. Instead they gimped an old mod. Castrated it. Everything in the past 2+ years has done this.

Who's even in charge of creative design at Mojang anymore? It used to be Markus ran the place with an iron fist (in my imagination shush), but now he's stepped off the whole thing, what's actually... happening? I still have no idea and I've had years where I could have found out.

[scrdest]

Mojang had rideable pigs and cows could have followed. Way later they added horses and didn't put in wings or horns or much in the way of breeding. They could have gone crazy with pigs and cows and even sheep. Imagine sheep mounts... Hilarious. Instead they gimped an old mod. Castrated it. Everything in the past 2+ years has done this.

Who's even in charge of creative design at Mojang anymore? It used to be Markus ran the place with an iron fist (in my imagination shush), but now he's stepped off the whole thing, what's actually... happening? I still have no idea and I've had years where I could have found out.

Dinnerbone, mostly. I don't think he even has any idea what to do with the game, he just adds what people want him to add.

[LordBucket]

No real surprise. The game is commercial now, Notch is gone, they've made their money and there's probably not much incentive to do anything particularly well.

[dragnar]

Mojang had rideable pigs and cows could have followed. Way later they added horses and didn't put in wings or horns or much in the way of breeding. They could have gone crazy with pigs and cows and even sheep. Imagine sheep mounts... Hilarious. Instead they gimped an old mod. Castrated it. Everything in the past 2+ years has done this. Even when they do recolors they leave things out. Stuff that's commonly paired lacks a full recolor.

Alright, just to avoid getting involved in this entire argument, I'ma restrict myself to some fact-checking here: Mojang didn't "copy" the horses from any mod. Nor did they do so worse than the mod. Why do I say this? Because, the coder who made Mo' Creatures worked with them directly on it.

Those horses weren't a poorly done ripoff, they were literally Mojang approaching a member of the community to integrate their mod into the game. It ain't a copy - it's borrowed with permission, the more magical features removed to fit vanilla minecraft's feel better. Mojang has proven quite willing to pull in help from their (rather amazing, underneath all the threats and shouting and general inanity) community to make the game better.

[Max White]

Yes, Dr Zhark helped with the horses, but that doesn't make them any less a copy of content from his mod...

[Mech#4]

The horses always remind me of LEGO horses, though other then that none of it really effects me since I use Minecraft pretty much only for building houses and mansions in creative mode.

[scrdest]

Mojang had rideable pigs and cows could have followed. Way later they added horses and didn't put in wings or horns or much in the way of breeding. They could have gone crazy with pigs and cows and even sheep. Imagine sheep mounts... Hilarious. Instead they gimped an old mod. Castrated it. Everything in the past 2+ years has done this. Even when they do recolors they leave things out. Stuff that's commonly paired lacks a full recolor.

Alright, just to avoid getting involved in this entire argument, I'ma restrict myself to some fact-checking here: Mojang didn't "copy" the horses from any mod. Nor did they do so worse than the mod. Why do I say this? Because, the coder who made Mo' Creatures worked with them directly on it.

Those horses weren't a poorly done ripoff, they were literally Mojang approaching a member of the community to integrate their mod into the game. It ain't a copy - it's borrowed with permission, the more magical features removed to fit vanilla minecraft's feel better. Mojang has proven quite willing to pull in help from their (rather amazing, underneath all the threats and shouting and general inanity) community to make the game better.

The point was that the devs basically stopped trying to maintain some sort of a consistent direction for the game and just keep porting popular mods to vanilla. At this point it's more maintenance than development.

[BigD145]

the more magical features removed to fit vanilla minecraft's feel better

Dragons. Witches. Enchantment system. Potions. Portals. Endermen.

You were saying something about magic?

[scrdest]

the more magical features removed to fit vanilla minecraft's feel better

Dragons. Witches. Enchantment system. Potions. Portals. Endermen.

You were saying something about magic?

On the other hand, Minecraft was in a magical, RPG-ish world ever since the initial concept, it's just that the features weren't added then.